Key Personnel

Paul C. Trane

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Paul C. Trane is the founder and lead Consultant for the Telecommunications Insight Group practice and serves as a Senior Advisor to clients of Kerbey Harrington Pinkard LLP.
 
Mr. Trane has provided expert testimony on many aspects of telecommunications to the United States Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, Federal Courts and regulatory bodies throughout the United States. Mr. Trane frequently provides comments to major media outlets. He has appeared on National Public Radio, Bloomberg Radio, CBS Sunday Morning and has been quoted extensively in the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, The Boston Herald, The Boston Business Journal, The Los Angeles Business Journal, Multichannel News, New England Cable News, The Wall Street Journal and many other trade publications. From 2005- 2013, Mr. Trane served as a founding investor and lead director for a startup company that went on to became one of the largest privately financed fiber optic network in Massachusetts. Through Mr. Trane's efforts, Forest City Network Solutions (FCNS) became a leading fiber optic network  for the biotechnology industry and health care providers in the Commonwealth. FCNS was sold in 2013 making it a highly successful venture for its original investors.
 
Mr. Trane’s has significant experience in political campaigns and government. In 2005, Mr. Trane brought together the personnel to form the Government Insight Group team (GIG).  GIG is engaged in the practice of government affairs and is managed by lobbyist Joseph Capuano. Mr. Trane has experienced unique success for clients  at all levels of government. Taking the words of Tip O’Neil “All politics is local” as a foundation, Mr. Trane has served as Communications Director for the Mayor of one of Massachusetts’ largest cities and a Senior Campaign Advisor to successful campaigns for local, state and federal offices. Mr. Trane is an active fundraiser for a variety of organizations, democratic and republican candidates throughout the United States. Mr. Trane is a member of Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's finance team, Massachusetts State Auditor Suzanne Bump’s finance committee, serves as Congressman Michael Capuano’s (D-7 MA) finance chair, serves on Congresswoman Katherine Clarke's (D-5 MA) finance team, was a member of  former  Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s finance team and serves on several non-profit boards of director. In 2013, Mr. Trane served as a policy advisor for Martin J. Walsh's successful campaign to become Mayor of Boston. Additionally, Mr. Trane served as a member of Mayor Walsh's Mayoral Transition Team.

James F. McGrail

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Mr. McGrail serves as Sr. Consultant for the Government Insight Group, Telecommunications Insight Group and as of Counsel to Kerbey Harrington Pinkard LLP. Mr. McGrail brings a unique industry understanding in telecommunications and transportation.

Mr. McGrail served as the Undersecretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, General Counsel for the Executive Office of Transportation, and Assistant to the Commissioner of the Massachusetts Highway Department, Chief of Staff at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and General Counsel at the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. Mr. McGrail has been a part of many of the most important development and transportation projects in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

In the telecommunications arena, Mr. McGrail has negotiated telecommunications franchises throughout New England and negotiated essential infrastructure agreements for several large scale land developments.

W. Scott Parr

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Mr. Parr is a strategic business leader, attorney and equity investor, who has advised, created and led successful organizations in the private, public and not for profit sectors. He has achieved performance improvements and objectives and increased entity value through a combination of analysis, innovation, advocacy, process and communications enhancement, team building and management. Most recently, he took over a poorly performing public company with a long history in manufacturing and technology, and remade it into the largest and most successful independent global provider of systems for the early identification of breast cancer. Prior to that, Mr. Parr served as CEO and as General Counsel for several high-technology corporations in high growth or turn-around situations and as a business attorney providing counsel in financing, organizational, strategic and contractual issues.

Mr. Parr also has significant experience in government and politics. He has set up and run local government and state programs in employment, education and environmental sectors and has served as a senior campaign executive for several state and federal political campaigns. Most recently, he was Campaign Chairman in a US Congressional race. Mr. Parr began his public service as a Senate Investigator for United States Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (Watergate Committee).

Mr. Parr is active in local government relations and advocacy, telecommunications licensing, personal emergency response device licensing, business formation and finance and energy. Mr. Parr obtained his J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (where he was a Littauer Scholar) and an A.B. in Economics from Brown University. He has been a Lecturer in Public Management at the College of the Holy Cross, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Harvard University School of Public Heath.

John Harrington

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Mr. Harrington, a partner at Kerbey Harrington Pinkard LLP, is a skilled commercial, IP and corporate lawyer with over twenty years of private practice and in-house experience. Mr. Harrington was a partner at Roche, Carens & DeGiacomo, General Counsel for the US holding company of a publicly traded UK building materials/construction company and Senior Counsel for a world leading telecommunications software provider. Mr. Harrington’s experience includes structuring, negotiating, drafting and analyzing commercial transactions related to the sale of telecommunications networks, telecommunications systems equipment, including both hardware and software, throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia.

Mr. Harrington has proven expertise in managing and implementing the full range of responsibilities performed by outside and in-house corporate counsel and business strategists for companies conducting business in the global marketplace. He has specific experience in the negotiation and drafting of commercial transactions involving high technology licensing, telecommunications/right-of-way agreements, energy and security licensing, cable television franchising and material supply agreements. Additionally, as in-house counsel, he has direct experience in corporate governance, Labor and Employment, Intellectual Property and Real Estate.

Mr. Harrington is a cum laude graduate of Suffolk Law School, a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and former Town Moderator.

McFall Kerbey III

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McFall “Mac” Kerbey, is an accomplished attorney and businessman with a distinguished record of accomplishment in global technology, IP, and telecommunications licensing. Mr. Kerbey has completed over 250 telecommunications agreements throughout the country and has led successful licensing efforts in telecommunications, security, real estate and technology services. Mr. Kerbey is former city solicitor and coordinates Kerbey Harrington Pinkard’s municipal law practice.

Prior to joining TIG and Kerbey Harrington Pinkard, Mr. Kerbey was recruited to serve in a variety of key corporate roles. Mr. Kerbey served as the CFO and General Counsel of an Arizona based technology company where he helped produce annual growth rates of greater than 35%. He also served as COO of Urban Tax Services where he increased company revenues by 70% and positioned the company for a successful sale.

A magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College and Boston College Law School, Mr. Kerbey is a former City Solicitor and special assistant district attorney with extensive experience working with municipalities in Massachusetts. Mr. Kerbey has also successfully lobbied the Massachusetts State Legislature and has served as an advisor to a number of elected officials on the local and federal level.